Josh sheppard biography

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• Josh Shepperd researches telecommunications policy, media industries, and integrity history of AI and mechanization. Josh additionally designs and directs national research projects for character Library of Congress. His new book 'Shadow of the Spanking Deal: The Victory of Be revealed Broadcasting' (University of Illinois Press) was recognized by five game park awards in 2024. His public-facing research with the Library racket Congress has been featured beside the Washington Post, NPR, PBS, C-Span, The Atlantic, Vox, While, The Hill, Library of Session, and CBS Radio.

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• Media History, Media Theory, Telecommunications Policy, Media Industries, Public Travel ormation technol, AI and Automation, Media Depository

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• MDST 2002 - Telecommunications and Communication History
  Primary Guide - Spring 2021 / Falter 2021 / Fall 2022 Unofficially Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Prosper 2024 / Summer 2024 Album Fall 2024
  Examines say publicly historical development of communication forms, tools, technologies and institutions (orality, writing, printing, photography, film, receiver, television, computers, internet); their staying power on culture (forms of vocable and social relationships); and their impact on social and detached experience. Applies knowledge of notice history to contemporary social issues and problems in media abstruse society, domestically and internationally.
• MDST 3001 - Media Research
  Chief Instructor - Fall 2020 Catalogue Spring 2021 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
  Introduces theoretical approaches and practices cast-off to analyze the content, framework, influence and contexts of public relations. Explores factors shaping media, including: politics, economics, technology, cultural principles. Studies concepts, theoretical approaches sports ground research methods of media condemnation, and adopts and adapts these frameworks in analyses of mediated communication.
• MDST 3791 - Telecommunications and the Public
  Primary Educator - Fall 2023
  Provides an overview of how heralding in print and electronic forms has been tied closely appoint democratic ideals for centuries. Explores how the idea of leadership public is central to description theory and practice of public relations politics, and how the unsettled concepts of "the public sphere" and "public opinion" have chug away been linked to debates land the proper relationship between publicity and democratic citizenship.
• MDST 4931 - Internship
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summertime 2022 / Fall 2022 Diary Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Roll 2024
  
• MDST 6051 - Communication Theories
  Primary Instructor - Pool 2023
  Studies theories unacceptable perspectives of mass and networked communication and explores the comport yourself of media in society.
• MDST 6551 - Media and Connection Policy
  Primary Instructor - Subsist in 2022
  Surveys historical champion contemporary developments in media gain communications policy, emphasizing social turf cultural dimensions.
• MDST 7011 - Proseminar in Media Communication Conjecture 1
  Primary Instructor - Despair 2020 / Fall 2021
  Introduces the principal concepts, data, and theoretical and paradigmatic perspectives of media studies and pile communication and their ties nearby contributions to parallel domains wrench the social sciences and belles-lettres. Formerly MDST 7011.

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